Cosa Nostra News

The  Friends  of Ours blogger  is offering for  99 cents a Kindle ebook that is such a worthy addition  to your library of books about the Mafia, I feel dutified to promote it. ( Did I just invent a word? ) John Gotti, in a surveillance video. Source The author raises questions some mobsters most likely are uncomfortable discussing publicly. Which is putting it mildly. It should come as no surprise that mobsters were killed over mere allegations of homosexuality. According to what one Mafia capo said in testimony, the mob has a law that goes something like:  If you're found to be gay, you die. Interestingly, the capo said that during his induction ceremony, he'd been instructed about many rules, though that specific one was never mentioned.

Anthony Capo, in witness protection, died at 52 of a heart attack. From the  NYPOST.com : A mob turncoat whose testimony helped doom the New Jersey crime family that inspired “The Sopranos” has died while hiding in witness protection, The Post has learned. Anthony Capo, 52, dropped dead Monday after suffering a heart attack. “There were more people celebrating this on Staten Island than the Giants’ win,” said one source. The death of Capo, who once stabbed a mob rival in the eye with a fork at a Staten Island club, was confirmed by his onetime lawyer, Joel Stein. Capo, a former soldier in the DeCavalcante clan, spilled the beans on the organization at a 2003 murder trial in Manhattan federal court, where he described how he whacked a mobster for being gay. “There were more people celebrating this on Staten Island than the Giants’ win,” said one source. “Nobody’s going to respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business,” ...